Making a List of Detainees in Kula
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Suad Korjenic said that he was arrested in the corridor of a residential building in Dobrinja neighbourhood, Sarajevo, in which he lived, on May 10, 1992. After that he was taken to Kula, where he was detained for about ten days.
“Some soldiers came by a transporter and forced us to go out. We were in the corridor. Three or four soldiers opened fire and opened the door. They gathered us in Trapare neighbourhood and then separated men from women and children. A bus came and drove us to Kula. Thirty-four people from my street were held in prison,” Korjenic said.
The witness mentioned that they were lined up in Kula and that their names were written down.
“We moved towards a desk. That man wrote our first and last names down. When it was done, we would move aside,” Korjenic said.
He mentioned that, after having been listed, they were taken into a room and that other detainees then told him that the person, who wrote their names down, was Luka Majstorovic.
“Some men knew that man, but I did not,” Korjenic said.
The indictment alleges that Majstorovic, former investigator, treated a Bosniak civilian in an inhumane manner and intentionally caused him bodily pain and suffering in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility. During the war Majstorovic was an operational servant with the Crime Service of the Public Safety Station in Novo Sarajevo.
According to the witness, he was taken for an examination a few days after having been brought to the facility. The witness said that he did not know whether the same person, who listed the detainees, examined him.
Korjenic pointed out that some men were taken out of the room and that they had injuries on return.
“Soldiers came in the evening and took men out randomly. Dubravko Smolcic was beaten up and covered with blood. A man called Memo came with a broken nose. He still lives in the same street, but I do not know his first and last name,” Korjenic said, adding that he was detained in Kula for ten days.
The trial is due to continue on November 19.
